I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.

Preferment goes by letter and affection.

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. To take the widow Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril; And hardly shall I carry out my side, Her husband being alive.

If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

O hell! to choose love by another's eye.